The free world is the new continent in cyberspace that we have built so we can live here in freedom. It's impossible to live in freedom in the old world of cyberspace, where every program has its feudal lord that bullies and mistreats the users. So, to live in freedom we have to build a new continent. Because this is a virtual continent, it has room for everyone, and there are no immigration restrictions. - Richard Stallman -

giFT-Ares is a plugin for giFT that connects to the Ares peer-to-peer filesharing network. Here you can find last (2010.11.23) working packages for Ubuntu GNU/Linux distributions.

giFT filesharing system is a modular daemon capable of abstracting the communication between the end user and specific filesharing protocols (peer-to-peer or otherwise). The giFT project differs from many other similar projects in that it is a distribution of a standalone platform-independent daemon, a library for client/frontend development, and modules for their own homegrown network, OpenFT, as well as the existing Gnutella network.

Apollon is a graphical frontend (KDE-based) to the giFT file-sharing system. It allows the user to perform searches and control downloads and uploads. Apollon needs a giFT daemon to be useful.

Apollon has many fine features such as file preview, multi-tabbed searching, filtering of search results, docking in the KDE/GNOME system tray, and downloading of entire remote directories.

Here we provide last packages from old Ubuntu versions.

gifTui is a graphical user interface to the giFT filesharing system. Its features are: multiple "browse user" and search tabs, network status, control uploads/downloads.

giFToxic is a simple and good-looking front-end (GTK2) to the giFT filesharing system. It allows the user to perform searches and control downloads and uploads. It needs a giFT daemon to connect to, which usually runs on the same computer as itself.

Ares is a free open source file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. BUT it's originally written only for MS-Windows.

You may now easily publish your files through the Ares peer to peer network. As a member of the virtual community, you can search and download just about any file shared by other users.

Desktop application: You can use graphical interfaces such as giFTui, Apollon or giFToxic. These kind of applications connect to a running giftd daemon (which can be using this Ares plugin)

Firewall / router: You need to open some TCP port and forward it to the computer runs giftd daemon. Default one specified in ~/.giFT/Ares/Ares.conf is 59049, but any other open works.

Installing giFT-Ares.

Graphical desktop: You can open the .deb package, and it's expected to be open with some package installer such as gdebi. After this, you can install also a graphical frontend (UI) such as giFTui, Apollon or giFToxic.

Obsolete nodes: If provided here becomes obsolete (your client doesn't connect), you can replace your file ~/.giFT/Ares/nodes by the SNodes.dat provided by an Ares Galaxy installation or this other project.